Thread: is Meego Dead for Nokia ?
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2011-06-07 , 18:48
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Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
If you look at what MS are and do you will see that mobile hardware is not there thing at all,
I'd even suggest that mobile software is not their thing at all. Even with the new approaches.

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
if i was CEO of MS and i wanted to go big in mobile software then i would look to buy a company that manufacturs mobile hardware.

They like everyone else in the world have been watching Nokia and with Nokia obviously failing mainly because of there software weakness, MS obviously seen what was happening with Nokia knowing full well the potential of a merger or buyout.



Buying out Nokia is not an option unless you have THAT much capitol to use so they waited for the right time to jump in with the merger offer bringing the 2 together as one basically.
I almost fully agree.

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Nokia WILL benefit no mater what in the long term as MS have a huge past record behind them and can sustain this for a very long time.
Not the "old" Nokia, that would do everything for themselves (from design over hardware manufacturing to their own OS). They loved their independence. They were quite open for a large company in adopting new idears and approaching the free software communities (almost as consequently as Google)
This "old" Nokia is dead now. And almost all software they had. (Including MeeGo for Nokia phones to get that reference to the thread's topic)

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
MS on the other hand needed to develop further in another field so with mobile hardware technology improving tremendously, they have made the move probably at the right time on mobile software now, having the right company to develop the hardware.
Probably the best one for hardware, ture that in terms of quality. But what about price? I think the asian companies will soon rush the market with a lot of cheap devices with fair quality. (Including WP7 on those, but no MeeGo as far as I can see)

Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
This merger will not be short lived in any way or form and people who think otherwise do not look deep enough into the 2 companies.

Something good has to happen on the law of averages alone so my mind is set on a wait and see basis but i bet we will not have to wait too long.
It's not a merger quite yet, but I think it will be some sort of soon.
But I'm not sure on the outcome. A thousand engineer's brains is not always better than 500 engineer's brains. Only if the steering is right. To harness the full potential, the management has to do the right job. And I'm afraid the "old" Nokia philosophy, to which some engineers there will still adhere, is fundamentally incompatible with that of Mircrosoft's engineers. I wonder if any Microsoft developer would ever work on MeeGo or Qt passionately (not that this is anywhere near any debate).